794 IOWA DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE 
Buckwheat— Very little grown. 
Millet — None. 
horghmn — Quality good; not much grown. 
T-hnothij—'Lsirge crop; quality fair. 
Clover — Large yield; quality good. 
Prairie Hay — None. 
Other Grains and Grasses — Bluegrass pastures good. 
Potatoes — Light crop owing to wet spring. 
Vegetables — Fair yield; quality good. 
Apples — Light crop; quality fair. 
Other Fruits — Very good crop of peaches of good quality. 
Cattle — Shorthorns and Polled Angua predominate. 
Horses — Roadsters and Percherons predominate. 
Swine — Chester Whites, Poland Chinas and Duroc Jerseys predominate. 
Sheep — Shropshire and Delaines are the principal breeds. 
Poultry — All kinds raised in large numbers. 
Bees — Very few left. 
Drainage — Good. 
Other Industries — Thriving but plenty of room for more. 
Lands — Range in price from $80 to $125 per acre. 
Report of Fair — Held at Donnelson, September 15-18, inclusive. Ex- 
hibits were extra good in all departments; w'eather was fine throughout 
the entire fair; attendance was large and in every particular the fair 
was a success. 
LEE. 
JOHX W^ALLJASPER, WeST PoINT, OCTOBER 5, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — The season opened up fair 
but turned out to be cold and wet, delaying the planting of corn, our 
main staple. Weather was good during harvesting and the fall, up to 
this writing, was the best to mature the corn crop that we have had for 
years. 
Corn — The heavy rains and the wet spring weather delayed planting in 
general, consequently there is a lot of late corn, which matured well dur- 
ing the hot, dry period of August and September. 
Oats — Fair; light weight but fair yield. 
Wheat — Fair, both in yield and quality. 
Rye — But very little sown. 
Barley — Hardly any sown. 
Flax — None sown. 
Buckwheat — Will be a fair yield and of good quality. 
Millet — But very little sown. 
Sorghum — Turning out very fair. 
Timothy — Large crop and of good quality. 
Clover — An immense crop of both hay and seed. 
Prairie Hay — None. 
Other Grains and Grasses — Bluegrass does well for pasture. 
Potatoes — Fair crop; not as good as last year. 
Vegetables — Pretty fair crop; cabbage not as good as last year. 
